UE Delegation Attends Global Nurses Solidarity Assembly

Left to Right: Angaza Laughinghouse, Local 150, Field Organizer Fernando Ramirez, Local 150 Vice President Sekia Royall, Nathanette Mayo, Local 150, and General President Peter Knowlton

September 20, 2019

San Francisco

In mid-September a UE delegation, including General President Peter Knowlton and rank-and-file members of UE Local 150, joined National Nurses United’s Global Nurses Solidarity Assembly[1] in San Francisco. Nurse unions from 27 countries gathered to address the global crisis of health care and the attacks union nurses are facing throughout the world.

UE Local 150 rank and file leader Nathanette Mayo spoke on a panel on solidarity organizing in the labor and social justice movements, and Local 150 leader Angaza Laughinghouse led a workshop titled “The Role of the Artist Is to Make the Revolution Irresistible.” Mayo and Laughinghouse also led the assembly in the Fruit of Labor song “Ain’t No Turning Back.”

The assembly also featured the premier of a new video, “Global Nurses United in Solidarity,” which shows the nurses’ unions from different countries engaging in struggle and connects the global healthcare crisis with struggles over environmental justice and climate change.